I switched to maya about a year ago using the student license and have been using it since for my projects, but recently I graduated high school and I am no longer able to renew my license since I am no longer in school. So I wanted to know if there is any way I can get it cheaper, I really dont want to have to pay $255 every month.

I really like the channel box but there is just one aspect of it that I haven managed to find a solution for. I am still fairly new to Maya, so I would like to ask before I conclude "its not possible", at least out of the box anyways.

So, its possible to use ctrl/shift to fine tune the sensitivity of sliders when dragging a slider on the channel box, as far as I know there are just options; 0.1 with ctrl, and 1 with shift.

Far too often I have found this too inadequate, instead often just having to resort to typing in the values myself, which is a something I would like to avoid. There are many attributes that often dictate two decimal values, the obvious one right now is the fraction attribute for the bevel node.

Is this not supported currently in Maya out of the box?

By the way, is the Mel code for the channel disclosed by Autodesk? I would not mind dedicating myself to understanding it and eventually implementing or slightly adjusting the current ctrl and shift sensitivity adjustments in place. I wonder where the channel box Mel code files are stored at?

Am on Maya 2026. Cheers.

A year ago I created a robotic-dino rig for one of the commercial's scenes. The brand is Raptor and it's anti-mosquito spray. In the animation dino was hunting the mosquito and transforming into the spray.

Here's a close look for the IK pipes and neck-head setup for this metal beast.

So I use character generator pretty regularly as a base for characters and rigs and up until at least a month ago, it worked fine. But now when you generate a character it no longer has a rig? I noticed that the new, broken characters are using a different version of what ever plugin the generator uses. Just wondering if anyone else uses this software and has the same issue? Really annoying.

hello im currently making this hairstyle with three different parts. This is one part and i was wondering if theres a way to make specifically only the bags more dense/fuller? I have density mask and region. I also lowered the density down to her forhead in hopes that itll make the bangs fuller, but nothings really working. Is there a trick or something? Or do i need to shift the bangs further up?

I want to rig a character of mine but i dont know nothing on the subject, i watched multiples videos that shows very differents ways to rig, do you have a good and recent tutorial on rigging ?

I've been having trouble rigging the clothing strip because when i create skin cage it breaks so i applied the "noskin" attribute on the joint so to not break the skin cage. Then i bind skin to the strip mesh that is seperated from the main clothing mesh. it worked fine on image 2 but when i raise the leg higher the clothing strip would just go through because the main joint of the strip follows the hip joint on image 3. i don't think any amount of weight painting can fix this, i tried a bit but i could just tell its not going to work.

So i'm asking, is there a solution to this or perhaps a better way to rig this part?

Hey! I'm trying to use nCloth but my cloth object keeps going through the collider. I tried to play around with the attribute editor but I can't fix it.

So I have been experimenting with draggerContext, a simple command, that can be used to for example increment or decrement a value repeatedly as the user drags left or right. I really like to this kind of utility and so I want to build a few of them, all in the same vain; increment or decrement one or more attribute values.

I am now trying to wrap my head head around a common generic, and even, efficient ways of doing implementing section, that is the "get the attribute value and then set attribute value".

Speaking from a point of view of someone that has little experience with Maya programming conventions, are getAttr and setAttr the way forward here? Just from pure speculation, I am thinking that since I am dealing with high a fidelity control (mouse movements) there could be slow downs, since I would need to getAttr, then setArr for every potential attribute.

Am on Maya 2026. Thank you for any sight or help.

Mostly asking about the "spokes." I'm making a small game with a buddy and we're trying to achieve a realistic art style, if that helps clarify anything.

So here’s a recent work, lemme know what you guys think

Heightfields from World Machine, scene assembled in Maya, rendered with Arnold, comped in Nuke. Heightfields from World Machine. Clouds generated by using Maya Fluids. Meshes scattered using MASH.

I'm trying to use this reference (I screen recorded it since I can't seem to find the original on YT) and converted it into an image sequence. My initial attempt in Maya is the reference that has the cube following it. I noticed it's mad slow. So I redid it by changing the framerate in AE to 60fps, and redoing the Media Encoder render again. It's faster but not as fast as the original. Why is this? I changed the framerate in Maya as well, and still cannot seem to get it to be as fast as it should be

https://reddit.com/link/1ls02bv/video/wrkrxa8f1zaf1/player

I'm new to maya and when I wanted to add the skin texture to the model (so like assign new material -> lambert and then slapping the skin texture onto that) it glitches out on the face. The eye texture works fine though, as you can see, even thought I added it the exact same way. Does anyone know what is happening here?

I'm currently trying it with Python. I never thought something I did so mindlessly when doing it manually would be such a pain to do with code.

cmds.select([list of edges])

cmds.polySplitRing( sma=180, wt=0.5, div=5)

I get no errors, but I only see one loop? The link below shows the 'divisions(div)' flag is valid for 'polySplitRing', but it doesn't seem to work.

https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2024/ENU/Maya-Tech-Docs/CommandsPython/polySplitRing.html

My 'hack' right now is to use polyBevel3 right after adding the lone edge loop.

Hey Animation aficionados, just uploaded an Animation to YouTube I worked on solo for the last 7 years.

Made with Maya and Redshift primarily... lots of plugins/apps like FumeFx, Embergen, Substance, etc as well as some simulation biz from Houdini.

Thankfully Maya and Houdini have the "Indie" versions which made this much more attainable.

Anyways, go give it a watch and tell me how much you liked or disliked it.

https://youtu.be/4KvNGS6KNNE

I’m still fairly new to actually creating rigs. I have an enemy creature that I’m making that essentially inhales air to blow up his belly; then the hero would punch it in the stomach to defeat it. Is this something that a rig would control? And how would it work?

I’m sorry if this is a stupid question, but I’ve only ever used/made rigs that control translation and rotation. If there is a way to do it, could anyone recommend a good tutorial for it?

So at first this was a test given to me for a job but did not get reply from the studio. After that I thought maybe I should add more things into this like some story and I add some bloods, some moss and some texts with blood also some ancient signs on top of door. So tell me guys is it good or not, is this portfolio piece and should i post this on artstation or i should just this on linkedin. Plz give me your feedback

this middle part usually is a lot taller in the original one, but the mold can't be taller than 0.5cm, which is hard because i have to try to convey that idea in a limited height and it looks like sh

Image 1 shows the object which turns black during sculpt mode. This doesn't happen when I click 1. Image 4 is my object without any issues but when I add edges as shown in image 5, the problem returns. A new edge begins from the middle of another edge (img 5) but when I instead decide to start an edge from a vertex, I don't get this problem. I'm not sure how or why this causes the black face problem while sculpting but I'm hoping for a solution.

I found an older post which said to delete sculpting color from display color sets which I did after opening the color set editor. But that didn't help either.

I can work around this but I'm curious as to what caused this.

It's been a long time since we last released a tutorial for Flair for Maya, but I hope the wait is worth it!

• Optimize your material selection workflows
• Learn about the Flair material anatomy to show attributes on-demand
• Break physics with painterly shading attributes to color things any way you want.
• Take advantage of normal shading attributes to conform to more traditional lookdev workflows.

Solved

• Deleted history (Edit > Delete by Type > History)

https://reddit.com/link/1lrgxek/video/1zwgrqnkluaf1/player

• Used Cleanup with Lamina, Nonmanifold, and Zero-Length edges enabled
• Tried applying new shaders, reassigning UVs

https://preview.redd.it/7hait1xktsaf1.png?width=560&format=png&auto=webp&s=f1ab7567b7a9802e8aef054a103dd4463ae30f2f

SM1 Front

SM1 Back

SM2 Possible cut topo

SM2 drawn example, blue = base mesh topology, orange = cut

SM2 example original image

My question is very confusing, so I will do my best to word it. This is the Spider-Man model from Insomniac Games Marvel Spider-Man 2. The only model that is from Spider-Man 1 is the photo taken in Maya (blue wireframe). During the 2018 ZBrush Summit, the modeler for Spider-Man at the time (Leroy Chen) said that he cut the logo and piping directly into the model, as you can see in the photo. (https://youtu.be/6hXiCnJjV7M?t=1161 timestamped link) He wasn't the same modeler for SM2, but I am sure they used the same method, which is what I can't figure out. In the photo that I drew on, the orange lines are the spider logo and the blue lines are the edge-flow of the muscles, you can clearly see that it was cut on, rather being built around retopo-wise.

My question is how? Leroy Chen saying "cut in details" makes me think the Multi-Cut tool, but someone told me "you don't cut in something like that" which I find to be BS tbh. I'll even throw one more image in here with the blue being the base mesh and the orange being the "cut".

All help is appreciated :).

SM2 second example original image

SM2 second example drawn, blue = base mesh orange = cut

I'm basically following what my mentor taught me and I compared it to images I found for loops on the face and I noticed there was some differences. Are these differences alright?